Word: flashbacking
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Greer Garson appeared, looking 80, but luckily we soon had a flashback to her youth and she quite literally made Tito...
...counsellors and psychiatrists try to help him by erasing the scars on his mind caused by his unhappy home life. The scenes of Donald's rejection by his mother, his unhappy life with his grandmother, and his exclusion from the society of other boys, are told in a long flashback of the boy's thoughts as he sits, lonely and bewildered, on a river bank at the school...
...York bank. During a critical week in his life, when the turning-point of his career in the shape of a possible vice-presidency looms ahead, a chain of circumstances leads him mentally and physically back to his home town. Most of the book is a long flashback describing Charley Gray's childhood and youth...
Also, there is the question of organization. The long flashback in the middle of the book sags perceptibly. After a couple of chapters one is perfectly willing to accept the author's word for the fact that the social strata in a small New England town are extremely solidified. Mr. Marquand, however, piles on more and more illustrations. Everything that happens to Charley Gray seems caused by the fact that he isn't quite on the top of the social ladder...
...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...